M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, has announced that Wang Tuo (b. 1984, lives and works in Beijing) is the winner of the Sigg Prize 2023. Wang won the award for his work The Northeast Tetralogy (2018–2021), an immersive multi-channel installation of four videos that is on view in the Sigg Prize 2023 exhibition alongside works by five shortlisted artists through 14 January 2024. Yongwoo Lee wrote about Wang’s work for the Autumn issue of ArtReview Asia, describing how his work – which spans film, performance, painting and drawing – ‘meticulously interweaves his understanding of diverse times and spaces with fiction, mythology, archives, memory and instances of political turmoil.’
This is the second edition of the Sigg Prize, first given in 2020 to Samson Young. Aimed at promoting artists working in the Greater China region, it comes with a cash prize of HKD 500,000 (£50,000). The five other shortlisted artists – Jes Fan, Miao Ying, Xie Nanxing, Trevor Yeung and Yu Ji – will each receive HKD 100,000 (£10,000).
